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Again, it is interesting to note how the emotions differ from the ones felt during the first song. "Frustrated" comes twice, as if something was missing from their point of view. The last comment about the repetitiveness and the regularity of the sound is particularly relevant as Mantaras and al. (2002) notes: “When neurons repeatedly receive the same stimulus, their firing rate, instead of remaining constant, decreases over time, which means that we deafen to a sound unless it manifests some form of novelty or renewal in its characteristics. Therefore, it is not surprising that music becomes more interesting when it is not too repetitive; that is, when it contains alterations in dynamic, pitch, and rhythm. This pack of alterations might partly explain why synthesized music is much less interesting than human-performed music: A real instrument sends to the auditory cortex more stimuli to react to than synthesized music.” (47)

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